He said: "I can’t understand these players, he signed an extension of five years only last year, when we saw how brilliant he was… and then he’s coming out with all that nonsense on the eve of a big game.

"If I was a team-mate of his I would kick him up and down the training pitch. Some of the senior players have got to get hold of him. He’s a talented boy, but his attitude is like a spoilt child. It was absolutely ridiculous.

"You don’t mind some players sometimes being moody, or having their head turned if they think they might be moving, but once you go on that pitch you’ve still got your pride.

"You’re playing for your team-mates, for your club, for your supporters, for your family. You’ve got to go out and perform, and be moody after the game if need be."

Hazard has found the net just once for Chelsea this season, and that solitary strike came in the FA Cup mauling of Championship strugglers MK Dons last month.

And Keane's fellow pundit Glenn Hoddle insists the 25-year-old needs to knuckle down if he is to recpature his best form ahead of this summer's European Championships.

"Before, they had a [Didier] Drogba, they had John Terry, a Frank Lampard and Petr Cech -experienced players who would’ve stopped that at source," said the former Chelsea boss.

Sticking the boot in: Keane has blasted Hazard (Image: ITV Grab)

"At the end of the day for me, there’s something there. Having signed a five-and-a-half year deal a year ago… if he wants to go back to a league and to a club that wins the league by 30 points each year, he’s not testing himself as a player. That’s what disappoints me.

"He’s got to knuckle down and play well for Chelsea this year, that’s who’s paying his money now.

"He’s a top player… last year he was exquisite at times, he probably won the league in the first half of last season for Chelsea, and he’s nowhere near that at the moment."